Democracy’s Foot Soldiers

A captivating history of the Afro-Caribbean soldiers who fought for the British Empire in World War I and their transnational campaign for equality Following the outbreak of World War I, tens of thousands of men from the British Caribbean volunteered as soldiers to fight on behalf of the British Empire. Despite living far from the bloody battlefields of Europe, these men enlisted for a variety of reasons—to affirm their masculine honor, pursue economic mobility, or enhance their standing as colo